Dead: Disney Adventures

I wrote a few comic scripts for Disney Adventures magazine following the demise of Disney's brief foray into comic book publishing in the early 90s. I have never really warmed up to Disney characters -- classic or modern (except for Grumpy, Grumpy rocks) -- the way I loved, say, Bugs Bunny and company. And writing gags really isn't something I think I'm much good at so I let my involvement with the magazine wither and die. My editor at DA was Heidi MacDonald who was great to work with (as was my previous editor at Disney, David Seidman). Heidi has a few words about Disney Adventures here. I'm pretty sure I was the first but a hearty handful of fellow SLG folks also did work for DA (Evan Dorkin, Walker and Jones, and Scott Roberts come to mind but there were others too) and have lost that avenue for income. That, of course, stinks. But the readers (including my kids) lose too. And that, I think, is the worse part: the loss of such an easy-to-get outlet for young readers to get comics.